• Law-Firm Life Doesn’t Suit Some Young Associates — by Ashby Jones, The Wall Street Journal Online
  
• New Reality — Aric Press, The American Lawyer, August 1, 2007
  
• Survival Tips for Summer Associates Entering the Real World of Law Firms - The Snark, Fulton County Daily Report, October 4, 2007

Attrition / Retention

• Keeping the Keepers II: Mobility and Management of Associates — National Association for Law Placement (NALP)
  
• The Lateral Lawyer: Why They Leave & What May Make Them Stay — NALP
  

Billable Hours

• Ad Hoc Committee on Billable Hours — by ABA Section of Business Law, 2001-2002
  
• Billable Hours Requirements at Law Firms — NALP Bulletin, May 2006
  
• The Billable Hour Must Die — by Scott Turow, ABA Journal, August 2007
• Resources on Effectively Changing the Framework of Law Firm — by the ABA YLD Summit Team, February 8, 2008
  

Diversity

• AJD Findings on Race-Ethnicity — by Gita Wilder, January 2008 Bulletin
  
• Although Most Firms Collect GLBT Lawyer Information, Overall Numbers Remain Low — by Judith Collins (along with sidebar commentary by Andrew Chapin), December 2007 Bulletin
  
• Few Lawyers Work Part-Time, Most Who Do Are Women — December 5, 2007 Press Release
  
• Minority Women Still Underrepresented in Law Firm Partnership Ranks - Change in Diversity of Law Firm Leadership Very Slow Overall — November 1, 2007 Press Release
  

Generational

• Bridging the Divide in Client Relations: Closing the Generation Gap — by Julia Hayhoe and Richard S. Cohen, Law Practice Magazine, June 2006 Issue; Volume 32, Number 4; Page 35
• Resources on Mentoring and Preparing for the Profession — by the ABA YLD Summit Team, February 8, 2008
  
• The Young and the Restless: Understanding Generational Differences in Today’s Law Firms — by Virginia Grant and Marci M. Krufka, Report to Legal Management, July 2003
  

Partnership

• Associates Giving Up On Partnership — by Marie Beaudette, Legal Times, September 30, 2003
• Navigating the Bridges to Partnership -- A New Research Report from the NALP Foundation — by Paula A. Patton, December 2007 Bulletin
  
• Partnership Tiers and Tracks — NALP Bulletin, February 2002
• Veil of Tiers — by Alison Frankel, The American Lawyer, June 29, 2004
  
• What Being a Nonequity Partner Means: From Lifestyle to Leadership Choices — by Robert W. Denney, Law Practice Magazine, September 1997

• Law School Debt Among New Lawyer— An After the JD Monograph — by Gita Z. Wilder, NALP, 2007
  
• Law School Survey of Student Engagement — by Thomas Adcock, New York Law Journal, May 2, 2005
• Legal Education Economics 101: A Primer for Bar Examiners — by Joseph D. Harbaugh, The Bar Examiner, November 2001
• Lifting the Burden — Law Student Debt as a Barrier to Public Service — Final Report on the ABA Commission On Loan Repayment And Forgiveness, 2001—2003
• Resources on Preparing for Transitioning into the Profession — by the ABA YLD Summit Team, February 8, 2008
  
• Student Debt Crisis: Lawmakers Take Action — by Craig Linder, Student Lawyer Magazine, September 2007; Volume 36, Number 1
  
• The Legal Profession and Public Service — The National Legal Center for the Public Interest — by Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice, September 12, 2000

• An Empirical Study of Associate Satisfaction, Law Firm Culture, and the Effects of Billable Hour Requirements (Part One) — by Susan Saab Fortney, Texas Bar Journal, December 2001
  
• An Empirical Study of Associate Satisfaction, Law Firm Culture, and the Effects of Billable Hour Requirements (Part Two) — by Susan Saab Fortney, Texas Bar Journal, January 2002
  
• Career Satisfaction Among Young Lawyers — ABA Young Lawyers Division Survey, 2000
  
• First Results of a National Study of Legal Careers an — An After the JD Monograph — NALP Foundation, 2004
  
• How Much Do Law Firms Pay New Associates? — By Judith Collins and Andrew Chapin, October 2007 Bulletin
  
• Law Firm Leverage Drops to Levels Last Seen 10 Years Ago — December 18, 2007 Press Release
  
• Report of the Boston Bar Association Task Force on Professional Fulfillment — Expectations, Reality and Recommendations for Change — Boston Bar Association, January 2007
• Salaries for New Lawyers: How Did We Get Here? — by Judith Collins, January 2008 Bulletin

• Facing the Grail: Confronting the Cost of Work / Family Imbalance — Boston Bar Association, January 2007
• Finding the Proper Work-Life Balance in the Practice of Law — by the ABA YLD Summit Team, February 8, 2008
• Resources on Career Strategies — by the ABA YLD Summit Team, February 8, 2008